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The master of arts in leadership is designed for working professionals and provides a deep foundation of problem-based learning about leadership from many different perspectives. The program is entirely online. Participants can expect to finish the program in two years.
The master of arts can be applied to any field and is designed to help individuals explore how they are called to lead and can enhance their own ability to navigate personal leadership challenges. All participants will be mentored and will receive a high level of faculty support as they progress through the program. The culmination of the master’s degree will be a capstone experience in which students enhance their leadership portfolios, implement (or further implement) a project within an organizational context, and demonstrate learning through a written product that integrates knowledge with courses.
Program Benefits
Application Deadline: May 1
Attend a free webinar to learn more about this program.
Wartburg College defines leadership as “taking responsibility for our communities and making them better through public action.” Community, in this context, can be broadly defined to include employment community, a spiritual community, and a geographic community, etc. Understanding the relationship of your role in various communities is critical for personal satisfaction and effective leadership.
Requirements
*Students may be admitted on provisional status with a lower GPA. Students on provisional status must obtain at least a 3.00 GPA after their first fall or winter term.
The program is designed to help individuals explore how they are called to lead and how they can enhance their own ability to navigate personal leadership challenges. The program will place a strong emphasis on application of the material in an applied setting (for example, the learner’s place of employment), starting with identifying and sharing a leadership challenge they are facing. Various course assignments and portfolio artifacts will be developed pertinent to the applied setting. The program will offer mentoring and a high level of support for individuals as they progress through the program.
The construction of a portfolio throughout the course offerings will serve as formative and summative documentation, which provides an integrative framework to the program as a whole. Each course contains assignments that comprise parts of the overall portfolio. Each learner will build a summative portfolio over the course of the program with advising from instructors.
Upon completion of the master’s degree, the learner will have demonstrated the following abilities and attributes:
Course |
Course Credit |
Duration |
Time in Calendar |
LDR490 Orientation to Leadership and Online Learning |
0.25 |
4 wks |
June |
LDR500 Leadership Intensive Seminar: Integrating Mind, Body, Spirit |
1.25 |
6 wks |
Online intensive + 1st summer session |
LDR510 Leadership Project Development |
0.5 |
4 wks |
2nd summer session |
LDR520 Leadership History and Theory |
1.0 |
6 wks |
Fall Term, 1st 7 wks |
LDR540 Leading Organizational Change & Innovation |
1.0 |
6 wks |
Fall Term, 2nd 7 wks |
LDR575 Applied Leadership Project |
1.0 |
6 wks |
Winter Term, 1st 7 wks |
LDR600 Portfolio Summary and Leadership Intensive |
1.0 |
4 wks + Online Intensive |
Winter Term, 2nd 7 weeks and Concurrently with LDR500 |
LDR625 Leadership Resource Management |
1.0 |
6 wks |
2nd Summer Session |
LDR650 Communication Theory and Ethics |
1.0 |
6 wks |
Fall Term, 1st 7 wks |
LDR675 Inclusive Leadership |
1.0 |
6 wks |
Fall Term, 2nd 7 wks |
LDR700 Leadership Capstone |
1.0 |
12 wks |
Winter Term |
Graduate School Questions: Doug Koschmeder
Assistant Dean of the Faculty | (319) 352-8761
Master of Arts in Leadership Questions: Michael Gleason
Director of the Institute for Leadership Education | (319) 352-8758